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yeah thats what I was thinking too vkaryl

I just had no idea how to write a plugin, how to even start for that matter, I’ve never done one before. I know PHP but thats about it.

but I ‘HAD” to use global somewhere in my templates, if my templates have a header, index. sidebar, and footer, otherwise $user_ID, $user_identity, etc etc have no values, so each variable you want to use, you have to setup a global statement just before it.

but i don’t have to use global if the template is just within an index.php (no header or sidebar in the template)

weird eh?

you can get away with not using

global $user_identity;
get_currentuserinfo();

if your template just has a single index.php file (meaning no header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php etc)

For instance, the simple-green theme I didn’t have to use global, or get_currentuserinfo();

however, with templates that DO have them split up in multiple files (I just found this out reciently after trying to split the simple-green theme up into multiple files) you HAVE to use global.

however, get_currentuserinfo(); isn’t needed either way. not sure why that is… In fact, I used global inside of sidebar.php, just before using $user_identity, and it worked just fine. I didn’t have to put global in header.php or index.php, I’m assuming the reason is because globals are no longer registered inside multiple includes (shrugs) thats just a guess though.

my temper, what about yours? Your the one thats acting like a jerk to me, all I did was ask a question..

it was “you” that started the attitude, so don’t turn this around on me man..

besides, if you want to bother editing your wp-admin.css file every single time WP decides to come out with a new minor version number, thats your business, but thats not ideal in the real world, because all your doing is just making more work for yourself.

It would be much easier, if that could be added to wp-content/themes, because then you wouldn’t have to hack the wp-admin all over again every time a new version of WP comes out.. sounded like a good suggestion to me, but if you think its a dumb idea and want to hack your wp-admin every time a new version number comes out, thats your own business, but don’t tell me how to run MY site because you seem to have a reading comprehension problem!

be an asshole, I don’t care, but you and I are talking about 2 entirely different things here..

your talking about hacking the wp-admin.css file. I am NOT.

I am talking about, adding the ability to change the login and profile screens by dropping a CSS file into

/blog/wp-content/Themes/theme-name/ directory.

instead of having to modify wp-admin css inside the wp-admin directory.

so be an asshole, I don’t care, because you and I are talking about 2 totally different subjects here.

I wasn’t asking about wp-admin.css, thanks,
I was asking if those files are themeable?

I don’t want to mess with the wp-admin.css, because that file changes every time a new version is released. it would be much easier if it was included in the themes.

I’m wondering how this is done? because I have seen it done on other blogs so I know it can be done I’m just trying to figure out how they were able to do it?

thats what I’m asking…

so like, could I do

/archives/postslug/ if its a post, and
/about/ if its a page?

thats basically what I’m asking?

yeah, but its got photos, content, and HTML embedded into it, so the “about” box does me no good really,

but thanks anyway ??

I ended up having to re-install WP 2.0.4 entirely (fresh new install) to get it to work correctly. About all I can think of, is blogs that have upgraded from 1.5x releses to 2.0.X series, must have lost some functionality and features during the upgrade process, then blogs that were new 2.0.X installs (shrugs) about the only reasoning I have on that one..but oh well. thanks for the reply

I tried that, it didn’t work, it must be more then one fuction in the code causing the conflict,

and since I am NOT a PHP programmer, I have no clue WHERE in the code to make all the necessary changes at..

but if I did, the one I would “change” or modify, is this one..https://www.lazyi.net/projects/amazon-wishlist/

since the other one is already functioning on my site, this one is the one I added and cannot get to work…

thats why I asked, if it was as easy as just changing the name of a conflicting function, I wouldn’t have asked, I’m not “that” dense ?? I’m just not a programmer, and I tried that and I’m still getting conflicts, so I need some help from soneone who knows a little more about writing plugins then I do, which is practically zippo. hehe

HandySolo, didn’t you read my first post?

That was the exact article I was talking about at the very first post of this thread dude…

I figured out “why” the “page template” sidebar wasn’t showing up though, because of the template I was using, it didn’t have the proper documentation inside the template file for the scrollbar to show up in the list.. so I fixed that problem thanks though ??

what I mean is, sorry didn’t make myself clear enough on that last post (I just sorta babbled) is that wordpress’s PHP coding is badly structured, they need to start over from scratch and structure the code alot better.. THat would not only speed up execution times, but also redundant code can be restructured and organized so much better ?? least thats my opnion anyway ??

I still say wordpress 2.0.4 is badly coded.. Its gotten better over the years, least now it follows XHTML specifications, but wordpress is still so badly coded and not very well documented… What they really need to do, and I’ve said this before, is just start over from scratch, something new and improved that blows away the rest of the competition, but that’ll never happen.. So I don’t get that excited about new releases no more..

https://www.pocketblog.com is an option, “IF” wordpress follows the “Blogger data API” specifications?

I don’t know if they do or not, but I know the blogger data API is open source ??